The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 79
‘But I WILL taste it to perfection,’ he roared.
Who acts: I, duke · What happens: taste, roar · To what, where: Pasty
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, duke), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 taste | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 taste | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 taste | nsubj |
| 4 | WILL | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 taste | aux |
| 5 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 roared | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 taste | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 perfection | case |
| 8 | perfection | perfection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taste | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 taste | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 taste | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 roared | nsubj |
| 12 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste | future | I | Pasty | to perfection | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute | |||
| 2 | roar | past | duke | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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